Daggerfall Po8 HQ Remake Music Mod Demo
43Here's a demo of the Po8 HQ Remake Daggerfall Music mod, which you can download for free to use with Daggerfall Unity here (as well as all our other mods): https://www.nexusmods.com/users/144232178?tab=user+files&BH=0
The mod puts my true-to-original remakes of the Daggerfall soundtrack into the game to replace the original MIDI soundtrack.
Special thanks to Xerardo!
Daggerfall is the second installment of Bethesda Softworks LLC's Elder Scrolls series. It was released on the heels of the success of the first Elder Scrolls title, Arena, after almost 3 years of production, on schedule, on September 20th, 1996. The game was never ported, so it is an MS-DOS exclusive.
Daggerfall is set in the fantasy world of Tamriel in the Bretonian province of High Rock (whose capital is Daggerfall) and the Redguard province of Hammerfell. The game begins with the player as an agent of the Emperor Uriel Septim who has been sent to do two tasks: free the ghost of King Lysandus, and to find out what happened to a letter from the Emperor to the former queen of Daggerfall. I don't want to spoil anything, but let's just say the plot gets really wild and results in one of 6 endings. The replay value of this game is extreme.
Daggerfall is on open-ended action RPG set in an expansive world featuring over 15,000 locations in 47 areas on a continent the size of Great Britain, and a population of around 750,000, Daggerfall's world is HUGE. Boasting the new Xngine (also used in The Terminator: Future Shock, Terminator: SkyNET, and XCar: Experimental Racing, as well as the two Daggerfall spin-offs Battlespire and Redguard) to replace Arena's Raycasting Engine, Players could create any class they wanted with the new RPG system, and enjoy an unprecedented freedom that they had never felt before in an RPG (and not since, IMO). Along with class creation, mages could also create their own spell (it was a rite of passage to make a super powerful spell you couldn't even cast). Players could join various factions in what is now a standard gameplay feature, but it was pretty fresh at the time (and still awesome today). Which faction they joined would affect how NPCs reacted to them. On top of all that, you could also become infected and be one of two kinds of lycanthropes or a vampire.
Combat allowed you to use a variety of weapons, each with their own graphics, and fight enemies in an admittedly clunky by today's standards Doom-style sprite real-time battle controlled with the mouse. The more you use a skill, the more powerful you become, so you can level up your sword skill by swinging it in battle, for example. This same improvement system also affects non-combat skills. Once you raise enough skills, you level up.
Daggerfall sits proudly in pantheon of the greatest games ever made. The game was a massive critical and commercial success that outsold expectations at the time (100,000 copies in 2 days!) and was still selling copies 4 years after release. It had sold around 700,000 copies by mid-2000. Today the game is freeware thanks to Bethesda's generosity, and you can find it on Steam and add it to your library. Fans have also been fighting for over a decade to keep the game alive before Bethesda released it as freeware. One project that ran for years, DaggerXL, didn't make it, but another project called Daggerfall Unity was able to finish the job, and it's available on gog.com. Today, there is still a thriving community of modders for Daggerfall, including Xerardo and myself.
You can download the PO8 HQ Remake Music Mod here, which will replace the original music with all of my remakes in Daggerfall Unity: https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/314
Original score by Eric Heberling ©1996
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